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Email UpdatesAmyShymansky @ October 30, 2009 # No Comment Yet
When developing programming for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) parents and professionals should consider spending time on developing core characteristics or skill deficits of the disability. When improvements are made on core characteristics of a disability, the end result is a less affected child.
In many children with ASD, joint attention is a major skill [...]
AmyShymansky @ October 27, 2009 # One Comment
Perspective-Taking Skills
The ability to understand and predict how other people are thinking or feeling is a very complex and abstract skill. Teaching perspective-taking skills to children with autism is a necessary piece of developing appropriate social skills.
Quick Strategy: To assist in teaching perspective-taking skills use visuals of drawings or pictures of people in social scenarios, draw [...]
AmyShymansky @ October 26, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Quick Strategy: To assist in teaching children with autism to answer and ask how questions develop their ability to describe steps in a process.
For example, ask your child to list or describe steps in the process to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich. Use visuals if necessary. Be sure to consistently use and teach [...]
AmyShymansky @ October 26, 2009 # 2 Comments
Quick Strategy: To assist children with autism in learning to answer and ask “why” questionsdevelop your child’s ability to understand cause and effect relationships.
Try using sequencing picture cards initially to assist in developing your child’s understanding of cause and effect relationships.
Purchase or develop sets of 3-5 pictures representing a sequence of events (EX: child running to school because [...]
AmyShymansky @ October 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Many times as young children with autism develop language they develop an ability to imitate language from others to assist in getting their needs met. What a great success to reach this milestone!
Sometimes after language imitation emerges parents report their child uses the language from an inaccurate perspective. For example, if their child wants ice [...]